“My letter not sistematic, don’t laugh it. this time the Battle everywhere, the situation didn’t secured. The criminal and the badman everywhere and the price of good s up everyday.

The Gouverment administration very bad and they didn’t gave happiness. My work just finished , the time pass so fast , i didnlt fill that the new year come , I hope in the new year we will happy.

With this letter I send my two photos don’t laugh when you see that .

19.01.75

We Siong

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VI-KY

________ in chinese :

Chuyen mon sua son cac loai We Chi

May may ben le gia tien re Singer machine

So 904/10 Duong Nguyen Trai service

Cholon

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2.February 1975

1)February,1st.1975

(1) Motorbike Tax

Front

“VIET-NAM CONG-HOA = THUE XE TU DONG= 19975 SO XE EO 2474” in the

back

BIEN LAI SO : 1218

NGAY : 1-2-75

SO TI’EN : 7500 $

NO’I CAP : GD

TRUONG TY

round red official stamped”Ty Phep Vu Vietnam Cong Hoa Gia-Dinh

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(until February 4th the South Vietnam “Viet Nam Cong Hoa “ still have the power, and they still charged the motorcycle tax-auth)

2)February, 1st.-28th 1975

Very rare and informative collections best for showed,the small pocket dairy’s book ‘Lich Bo Tui 1975” of Trung –Tam Bao-Hiem Cong-Ty Saigon with handwritten information every day froem Saturday February 1st until 28th 1975 .

(very rare document historic collection, never report , only one because this was private handwritten information-auth)

Calender 1975 from january(Janvier ) to December (Decembre) every day ‘s with Heoro or saint day , like 1st January : M Jour De L’AN, 31th December : M.S.Sylvestre, 25th December: Noel(Christmas)., and centimeter schales from 1 cm to 10 cm.

2.dja chi so dien thoai ca nho(may be the list of Military or Quan 1 until 11)

(the complete informations of Lich Bo Tui 1975 will put at the date that written in the that pocket book’s dairy, this collection very interesting and best for showed after copy in the bigger format illustration and translate in English, please someone help me to translate –auth)

Weeding through the old to bring forth to new Confucius advocated virtue benevelence and nightmerness as characteristres of the upright rules, and Mencius advicing the conforoa tradition argue for inmate goodness of human nature(The Native Vietnamese during vietanwar write about Confucius and Mencius in the note book.Dr iwan S)

Nguyen Cong Hoan Info:” At the beginning of March 1975 the communist attack Ban Me Thout. That was the beginning of the end. After Ban Me the government forces just crumbled.I kew were in the middle of a disaster .Nobody in the opposition had any leverageleft.There was no way to influence events. There was simply nothing to do .I was in totally pasive position- as if I was back in the Nha Trang jail, letting them cause I couldn’t do anything about it.”

Cong vree dtoc sais and in english :”weeding through the old to bring fourth the new Confusius advocated virtue, benevolence and righteourness no characteristoes of the upright rules, and Mencious advancing the confusian tradition, argued for the innate goodness of human nature”

(Very interesting information have found inside the pocket notes ‘Lich Ho Tui 1975 during the vietnam liberation war in 1975 very difficult to found the unique document collections, please someone help me to translate the vietnamese and Franch character information, please comment-auth)

In early 1975, North Vietnamese military led by General Văn Tiến Dũng launched a massive attack against the Central Highland province of Buôn Mê Thuột. South Vietnamese troops previously anticipated attack against the neighboring province of Pleiku, and were caught off guard. President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu ordered the moving of all troops from the Central Highland to the coastal areas, as with shrinking American aid, South Vietnamese forces could not afford to spread too thin. However, due to lack of experience and logistics for such a large troop movement in such a short time, the whole South Vietnamese Second Corp got bogged down on narrow mountain roads, flooded with thousands of civilian refugees, and was decimated by ambushes along the way. South Vietnamese First Corp near the DMZ was cut off, received conflicting orders from Saigon on whether to fight or to retreat, and eventually collapsed. Many civilians tried to flee to Saigon via land, air, and sea routes, suffering massive casualties along the way. In early April 1975, South Vietnam set up a last ditch defense line at Xuân Lộc, under commander Lê Minh Đảo. North Vietnamese troops failed to penetrate the line and had to make a detour, which the South Vietnamese failed to stop due to lack of troops. President Nguyễn văn Thiệu resigned. The power eventually went to Dương Văn Minh.

March,11th.1975

Vietcong capture Banmethout(D)

(9)March 15th1975

(a)Thieu meet with his commanders at Camranh, orders nothern provinces of South Vietnam abandoned.(D)

(b)The North Vietnamese Army or NVA(Vietminh), had driven the South Vietnamese troops(AVRN), out of Pleiku and down Route 7B to the coast.look at the picture of Pleiku People refugee.

The retreating coliums of civilians and military had been harried and kharrased and ambushed all the way-they’d even run afoul of expertly laid (and inepertly cleared) minefields left bu South Korean forces earlier in the war.

The entire operation,ordered in the incompewtence and panic of the AVRN generals,had been a disaster with only a little over one in three AVRN troops finally arriving on the coast at Thuy Hoa.

More than 120,000 were killed or captured
Large quantities of military hardware were also captured.

Vietcong capture Danang.

This day, the Danang City had fallen and the soldiers(AVRN) at the airfield had gotten there in time to see the last plane out leave the ground with people clinging to the open stairs in the rear and hiding in the wheel wells.The Soldier who had field glasses or exceptionally good eyess could see several of the desperate fall away from the aircraft to the eground and bounce in that odd way that only the dead can. The soldiers laughed at that and mimicked the panic-stricken people who run desperatetly down the runaway after the big jet.

They were rested bow and well fed.They had refilled their ration bag and their amunition pouches. They had treated their wounds and refilled their ranks. They had listened to the Lectures on the importance of their historic missson.They had learned of the success elswhere and been briefe on their next set of golas and objectives.

They had looked at their’Born in the North to Die in the south. “Tattoos almost without noticing them.

Danang had fallen,the chaos and panic attentant to the final few hours before the enemy captured the place had been horrifying. The last few overloaded planes out of Danang had had people cling to the landing gear and hiding in the baggage compartements.look qat the picture of Danang Refuggee excape to USS Midway

The Ancient capital of Hue and Quan Tri and all the nothern province were gone.

All that was truly left of republic of Vietnam(RVN) on the coast at places like Thuy Hoa,Qui Nhon ,and Nha Trang, and most the mekong delta.(Gerry Carrol Info)

(14) March,29Th.1975

By March 29, 1975, North Vietnamese troops had full control of Hue and Da Nang, while South Vietnam lost all territories in I Corps and most of the units belonging to the ARVN 1st Brigade.

.(15)March.31th 1975

Pilotbeuro in Hanoi direct General dung to push toward Saigon in the “Ho Chi Minh campaign”(D)

The fall of Hue and Da Nang did not spell the end of the misery suffered by the Army of the Republic of Vietnam. On March 31, ARVN General Pham Van Phu—commander of II Corps Tactical Zone—attempted to form a new defensive line from Quy Nhon to cover the retreat of the ARVN 22nd Infantry Division into the Mekong Delta, but they too were destroyed by the North Vietnamese.

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April 1975-The last Month of Saigon US-Vietnam regime.

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(1) April,1st.1975(Let Gen .Gerry Carroll Info)

Lt.Tim Boyle,USN, was going through the daily massage trafic when the meeting in the conference room down the hall broke. As one of the assitent air operation officers on the staff of the Navy’s commander in chief,Pacific, he was rarely invited into such august meeting where the red security over the door glowed in the gloom of the central passageway.Boyle,couldn’t care less about that crap.He had learned on his last tour, as a combat Search and Rescue helicopter pilot,what was important and what was not. It has taken him about a month to figure out all the ins and outs of his new job at CINCPAC, and from then on he could usually have all his works done quickly and correctly.He initiated the one he was reading and turned to the next one,which was an unclassified summary od the situation in South Vietnam.

Boyle commandant Hickersons told him that in the afternoon everything was ready for retirement ceremony both at the parade field and at the club.

The soldir sat samll groups by the airfield bounderies.from behind them the distant sounds of the sack of Danang reached them in bits and pieces carried in the stillness of the day’s first light.the unit following behind the front-line troops were searching the city for anything useful to the offensive,shoving aside terrified citizens and refugee from the provinces to west and north who had fled here in the vain hope of avoidng the horrors to come.

Other troops had been rounding up enemies of the revolution who had only hours and days before been pillars of their society-teachers,policemen,clerics-anyone who represented either of the twin threats to the soldier’s ideology,education,or employment by a free government. The enemies (vietcong) were being march out of the city to the west toward death in a labor battalion,or death by the execution squads,or intellectual death in the reeducation camps.

The ordinary citizenry huddled in the doorways or by the side of the road or together in clumps with others,holding their children away from the guns and the hard-eyed squads of armed men. a few sat on the beaches and looked over the empty sea toward the ship that would never come to take them away. They had nowhere else to run.And with the relentless advance of the Communist(Vietminh) divisions from the North,they had no place to hide.

five hours after the Vigilante landed aboard the concord,the photographs taken on on its misssion sat in a jumble with many others on a mahogany conference table in the American headquaters at Tan Son Nut airport outside Saigon. around the table sat the chiefs of whar remained of the American Military presence in the Reoubklic of South Vietnam.With the diminution ot the presence same a frustarting powelessness to do one damn thing aboutbthe disasters these photographs and others yet to be taken where chronicling.

this meeting had been called to assess the speed of the decline in the military situation for south Vietnam without the offtimes confucing qanalyses from whasington.This afternoon there weere no baeurucratic filters or delays between the staffers and the raw informations. There was no analysis’s caviling prose concluding that both sides of the question were rquakky correct and equally likely.There was no countercorroboration.There was no hedging.

There was no channce.No chance at all,to therese eperienced military men,that the South Vietnamese were going to be able to stop the advance of the khaki-and-green-clad mass of Communist”liberators’ from the north(Carrol info)

(2)AS the North Vietnam army thrust south, millions of refugees fled in terror toward Saigon .

(3) South Vietnamese refugees are slung into hold of a cargo ship as they anxiously strive to flee the advancing Vietcong.(P

(4) Prior to the Fall of Saigon

Nguyen Bao Tung (Best Vietnamese phillatelist) former captain of the republic of Vietnam’s Army (ARVN) , was the commander of the 34 th MP-CID ( Military Police-Criminal Investigation Detachment) in Saigon.

In his collections contains President Nguyen van Thieu stamps on cover bored the signatures of the president and official seals of Goverment.

In 1975 he wrote about stamps for “ de la Timbrologie”, “ Le Monde des Phillatelie, Bien-Tong Ji-Pao (in Chinese)

( Who was the owner of this very rare covers , please showed us, I have the Thieu stamps 10 Dong, postally covers with KBC stamped, when I have seeking the information via Gogle exploration I found this Nguyen Bao Tung informations –auth)

The Hue-Da Nang Campaign was a series of military actions conducted by the Vietnam People’s Army (VPA) and the Viet Cong against the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) during the Vietnam War, also known in Vietnam as the American War. The campaign was centred on the cities of Hue (Thua Thien-Hue Province) and Da Nang (Quang Nam Province), with secondary fronts in the provinces of Quang Tri and Quang Ngai. The campaign began on March 5 and concluded on April 2, 1975.

During the spring season of 1975, the Vietnam People’s Army High Command in Hanoi made the decision to seize the major South Vietnamese cities of Hue and Da Nang, and also destroy the various South Vietnamese units in I Corps Tactical Zone, led by ARVN General Ngo Quang Truong. Originally, the campaign was planned to take place over two phases; during the seasons of spring-summer and autumn. However, as the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces rolled over South Vietnamese defences on the outskirts of Hue and Da Nang, President Nguyen Van Thieu ordered General Truong to abandon all territories under his control, and pull his forces back to the coastal areas of I Corps. Unfortunately, the South Vietnamese withdrawal quickly turned into a rout, as the North Vietnamese 2nd Army Corps picked off one South Vietnamese unit after another, until Hue and Da Nang was completely surrounded. By March 29, 1975, North Vietnamese troops had full control of Hue and Da Nang, while South Vietnam lost all territories in I Corps and most of the units belonging to the ARVN 1st Brigade.

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April.3th 1975

South China Sea….Crewmen of the amphibious cargo ship USS Durham (LKA-114) take Vietnamese refugees aboard a small craft. The refugees will be transferred later by mechanized landing craft (LCM) to the freighter Transcolorado. Photo taken 04/03/1975.

April,8th 1975:

THE EARLIEST VIETCONG MILITARY ‘S SAIGON GOVERNMENT DOCUMENT IN 1975.(SIX AFTER CAPTURE SAIGON)

(a)Vietcong capture Xuan Loc, last South Vietnamese defense line before Sai-gon (D)

(b) With the North Vietnam army encircling Saigon , President Thieu officially resigned on April,21th 1975

(7)April.23th 1975

President Ford, speaking in New Orleans , calls the war “finished”(D)

April.24th 1975

President Ford meets in the Oval Office with Brent Scowcroft, Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs; Graham Martin, United States Ambassador to the Republic of Vietnam; Army Chief of Staff General Frederick Weyand; and Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger to discuss the situation in Vietnam. Photo taken 03/25/1975.

President Gerald R. Ford talks to a woman refugee while holding a Vietnamese baby on a United States Air Force bus. The President after greeted the refugees of the Republic of Vietnam at a California airbase. Photo taken 04/04/1975.

Vice President Nelson A. Rockefeller; Deputy Assistant For National Security Affairs Brent Scowcroft; and Central Intelligence Agency Director William Colby discuss the situation in Vietnam during a break in a meeting of the National Security Council. Photo taken 04/24/1975.

Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger and National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft stop by the West Sitting Room to apprise President Gerald R. Ford, and Mrs. Ford, on the progress of the evacuation of Americans from Saigon. Photo taken 04/28/1975.

President Gerald R. Ford presides over a meeting of the National Security Council to discuss the situation in Vietnam. (clockwise l-r) William Colby, Director, Central Intelligence Agency; Robert S. Ingersoll, Deputy Secretary of State; Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger; Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger; William Clements, Deputy Secretary of Defense; Vice President Nelson A. Rockefeller; and General George S. Brown, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Photo taken 04/28/1975.

April,26th 1975

(a)Thieu leaves Saigon for taiwan(D)

(b)President Nguyen van Thieu turned the government over to Vice President Tran Van Huong, but Huong resigned a days later, turning the office over to Duong van Minh, who was acceptable to the North Vietnamese officially surrendered as the North Vietnamese tanks rammed through the gate of the Presidential palace on August 1975.

Look at the Corbis Picture October 31th 1975 when presidet Thiue leave platform following by vice president Tran Van Huong and Prime Menistry below:

Nguyen Van Thieu Leaving Stage After Taking Oath

Original caption: South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu leaves platform after taking oath of office for another four-year term, October 31. He is followed by Prime Minister Tran Thiem Khiem (L) and Vice President Tran Van Huong. Seated at right are Justices of the Supreme Court.

(Thieu originally took refugee in Taiwan , but later moved to London, where he lived several years. He had a vary quite life, avoiding the limelight and granting few interviews. He later moved to US living in affluent Boston suburb. Slowly, he began to reemerge, travalling to portion of the world, talking with symphatic groups in 1989-1990.

In an organizing groups to support change in Vietnam , he said that he no longer wanted a leadership position thetre (“I am old too old to take power again’) but wanted to lend hisexperience to those pushing reforms. He said he hoped to return someday to his homeland.

As of 1996, Thieu was still living near Boston, holding to a quiet life. He to the repoter :” I read ( discuss) the work in my home “. Thieu died on Saturday September ,29th,2001 ,in Beth Israel Deaconss Medical Center , caused of death unspecified., he was 78.-auth)

(9)April,28th. 1975

Vice-President Tran van Huong transfers authority as chief of state to General Duong van Minh (D)

(10) April 29th1975

(a)Option IV

evacuation of last Americans from saigon, begins, Ambassador Martin Depart(D)

(b)Huniation

a US helicopter evacuated American and a few lucky Vietnam-ese to the safety of a nearby US warship a day before the fall of Saigon (P)

(c)The fall of Saigon as the last Americans and accompanying Vietnamese were lifted from the American Embassy in a frenzied evacuation, seventy helicopters carrying 1000 people to safety on the US warship lying offshore.

(d) But hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese officers and civil servants who had been loyal to the American-backed South Vietnam regime were left behind .

Hundred thousands of Vietnamese officers and civil servant who had beeen loyal to the American –backed South Vietnamese regime were taken to camps and joint the rigid “Re-education”, where some spent months and other years, a Vietnamese Gulag.

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